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  1. Category: Professorships
    Application deadline: 22.09.2023
    Tenure-Track Position, Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies (Harvard)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Position Description The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth century, from the...

    Fields of research French literature,  Didactics of Literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 7 more
    Created on: 07.08.2023
  2. Category: Academic positions
    Application deadline: 20.02.2023
    Lecturer on Comparative Literature, Harvard University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Title Lecturer on Comparative Literature School Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department/Area This is a one-year appointment, potentially renewable for another two years. The appointment is expected to begin on...

    Fields of research World Literature,  Translation,  Theory of translation
    Created on: 27.01.2023
  3. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.01.2023
    Overwhelming Nature: Confronting Catastrophe and the Sublime in the Arts and Humanities (15.01.2023)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Overwhelming Nature: Confronting Catastrophe and the Sublime in the Arts and Humanities In Person | Harvard University | 25–26 March 2023 The present conference seeks scholarly contributions across disciplinary and...

    Fields of research Poetics,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 09.12.2022
  4. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 16.12.2022
    "Race" und Antirassismus im deutschen Kultursektor | Baltimore, USA (16.12.2022)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Auf Englisch bezeichnet der Begriff race ein soziales Konstrukt. In der deutschen Sprache dagegen gibt es keine direkte Übersetzung; Rasse ist ein biologisches Konzept, das heutzutage nicht mehr in Bezug auf Menschen verwendet wird. Race wird daher...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Didactics of Literature,  Postcolonial studies and 1 more
    Created on: 25.11.2022
  5. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
    Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The faculty of the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature shares an ongoing commitment to questions at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and aesthetics. Central to these concerns is the analysis of literary and philosophical...

    Created on: 22.08.2022
  6. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 15.01.2022
    5-Year Fellowships for Graduate Students, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German program at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for PhD students to begin in Fall 2022, with 5 years of generous funding to be offered to all admitted graduate students. The program at Johns Hopkins is among the most...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies and 5 more
    Created on: 29.11.2021
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 10.03.2022
    NeMLA 2022 conference: NeMLA's 53rd Annual Convention
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The 2022 NeMLA conference theme is CARE. We understand CARE as the practice of interdependency, admitting our vulnerabilities as humans, animals, and other living organisms of the Anthropocene. The NeMLA theme of CARE will embrace but not be limited...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literary historiography,  Literary theory and 4 more
    Created on: 05.07.2021
  8. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 07.04.2021
    “Seid einig—einig—einig!”: Friedrich Schiller and Unity. An International Workshop Co-Organized by Harvard-CSULB-Johns Hopkins on Zoom
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    When, in his inaugural address, US President Joseph Biden called for “that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity,” he mirrored the call of Friedrich Schiller’s 1804 drama, Wilhelm Tell “Seid einig—einig—einig” (Be united—united—united). ...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literature of the 18th century,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 12.03.2021
  9. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2020
    Graduate Student Conference “Dust and Distraction // Staub und Zerstreuung”
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Graduate Student Conference in German Studies, Johns Hopkins University February 12th & 13th, 2021 10am - 4pm ET Abstract deadline: November 30th, 2020 ...

    Fields of research Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 20.11.2020
  10. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 25.03.2020
    Alexandre Dumas. Écrire noir/ou blanc
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Appel à Communications Colloque « Alexandre Dumas. Écrire noir/ou blanc » 3-5 décembre 2020 à Johns Hopkins University La reconnaissance officielle de Dumas depuis 2002 et son intégration, physique et symbolique, au Panthéon...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 27.01.2020
  11. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 09.01.2020
    Fellowships for Graduate Study in German, Johns Hopkins University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The German program at the Johns Hopkins University invites applications for PhD students to begin in Fall 2020, with generous funding to be offered to all admitted graduate students. The program at Johns Hopkins is among the most...

    Fields of research Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Literary theory,  Interdisciplinarity
    Created on: 15.11.2019
  12. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  Harvard University,  University of California Berkeley (UCB) and 5 more
    PhD-Net »Das Wissen der Literatur«
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das PhD-Net »Das Wissen der Literatur« ist ein bi-nationales Promotionsprogramm. Seit Beginn des Wintersemesters 2008/2009 bietet das Netzwerk deutschen und internationalen Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen einen gemeinsamen Forschungs- und...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 10.07.2019
  13. Category: Research Units
    Institutions: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,  New York University (NYU),  Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (MPIWG) and 6 more
    Netzwerk "Literatur – Wissen – Medien"
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Das thematische Netzwerk „Literatur – Wissen – Medien“ ist ein bi-nationales Austausch- und Forschungsprogramm, das gefördert durch den Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) im Sommersemester 2015 seine Arbeit aufgenommen hat. Den Rahmen des...

    Fields of research Literature and media studies
    Created on: 05.07.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Bibliothèque-Musée de la Comédie Française,  Université Paris Nanterre,  Université Paris-Sorbonne and 1 more
    Comédie-Française Registers Project (CFRP)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    De 1680 à 1793, l’institution théâtrale officielle qu’est la Comédie-Française est au coeur du paysage culturel parisien et programme plus de 34 000 représentations durant cette période. La troupe du Français joue non seulement les grands auteurs du...

    Fields of research French literature,  Literature of the 17th century,  Literature of the 18th century
    Created on: 13.05.2019
  15. Category: University institutes
    Institutions: Harvard University
    Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Reflecting the ongoing paradigm shift of comparative studies from an almost exclusive focus on Western European traditions to a newly global awareness, our faculty ranks have expanded in recent years to encompass a world-wide range of languages and...

    Created on: 12.12.2018